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Poetry Canadian

The Best of Robert Service

by (author) Robert Service & Mariken Van Nimwegen

Publisher
Hancock House
Initial publish date
Nov 2017
Category
Canadian, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888395450
    Publish Date
    Nov 2017
    List Price
    $12.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780888393425
    Publish Date
    Mar 2021
    List Price
    $24.95

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Description

This new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties. He was quoted as saying, I just go for a walk and come back with a poem in my pocket.

About the authors

Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England in 1874, the son of lower middle class parents, the eldest of what would be ten children. When he was four, the family moved to Glasgow, Scotland and he and a brother were taken to live with his paternal grandparents and four aunts nearby in Kilwinning. In school, he was known for getting into scrapes, but mostly was a solitary and imaginative child, immersing himself in books. At a celebratory meal for his sixth birthday, he always remembered surprising the adults and even himself, with two spontaneous rhyming verses in the form of a grace, foretelling of his future and his talents.

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